Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...

gold-and-ivory statue of the goddess Athena. But classical scholar Jeffrey Hurwit, a professor of art history at the University of Oregon and expert on the architecture of the Acropolis ...

The damaged sculptures dated to the 2nd century and depicted the head of the goddess Athena (the Roman Minerva) and what appeared to be a statue of a griffin clutching the wheel of fate ...

Built between 447 BC and 432 BC, this ancient Greek temple was dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens. While the original statue of Athena Parthenos has been lost, the Parthenon remains ...